Author: Rhiannon Futch
Publisher: Rhiannon Futch
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Trapped in a castle with him, my life is no longer the only thing in danger of being lost. Deception and danger are everywhere but the biggest threat is Callum. I finally found my family and now the vampire courts have ripped me away from them. My only comfort is the knowledge that my beloved Nims is at home, where her secret is safe. Callum turned me and now he thinks he owns me just because the court said I must serve a year with him before they’ll even think about letting Roman’s family adopt me into theirs. I hate him, but the sparks between us are undeniable and he is my only protection from his family. My only chance of making it home alive is staying close to him, the one person I need to avoid at all costs.
Olivia's Prison
Author: Rhiannon Futch
Publisher: Rhiannon Futch
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Trapped in a castle with him, my life is no longer the only thing in danger of being lost. Deception and danger are everywhere but the biggest threat is Callum. I finally found my family and now the vampire courts have ripped me away from them. My only comfort is the knowledge that my beloved Nims is at home, where her secret is safe. Callum turned me and now he thinks he owns me just because the court said I must serve a year with him before they’ll even think about letting Roman’s family adopt me into theirs. I hate him, but the sparks between us are undeniable and he is my only protection from his family. My only chance of making it home alive is staying close to him, the one person I need to avoid at all costs.
Publisher: Rhiannon Futch
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Trapped in a castle with him, my life is no longer the only thing in danger of being lost. Deception and danger are everywhere but the biggest threat is Callum. I finally found my family and now the vampire courts have ripped me away from them. My only comfort is the knowledge that my beloved Nims is at home, where her secret is safe. Callum turned me and now he thinks he owns me just because the court said I must serve a year with him before they’ll even think about letting Roman’s family adopt me into theirs. I hate him, but the sparks between us are undeniable and he is my only protection from his family. My only chance of making it home alive is staying close to him, the one person I need to avoid at all costs.
Inside This Place, Not of It
Author: Ayelet Waldman
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786632306
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
“Essential reading” on some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black) Here, in their own words, thirteen women recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their harrowing struggle for survival once insides. Among the narrators: Theresa, who spent years believing her health and life were in danger, being aggressively treated with a variety of medications for a disease she never had. Only on her release did she discover that an incompetent prison medical bureaucracy had misdiagnosed her with HIV. Anna, who repeatedly warned apathetic prison guards about a suicidal cellmate. When the woman killed herself, the guards punished Anna in an attempt to silence her and hide their own negligence. Teri, who was sentenced to up to fifty years for aiding and abetting a robbery when she was only seventeen. A prison guard raped Teri, who was still a teenager, and the assaults continued for years with the complicity of other staff.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786632306
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
“Essential reading” on some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black) Here, in their own words, thirteen women recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their harrowing struggle for survival once insides. Among the narrators: Theresa, who spent years believing her health and life were in danger, being aggressively treated with a variety of medications for a disease she never had. Only on her release did she discover that an incompetent prison medical bureaucracy had misdiagnosed her with HIV. Anna, who repeatedly warned apathetic prison guards about a suicidal cellmate. When the woman killed herself, the guards punished Anna in an attempt to silence her and hide their own negligence. Teri, who was sentenced to up to fifty years for aiding and abetting a robbery when she was only seventeen. A prison guard raped Teri, who was still a teenager, and the assaults continued for years with the complicity of other staff.
Everybody: A Book about Freedom
Author: Olivia Laing
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393608786
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
"Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century—among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X. Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Arriving at a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Everybody is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393608786
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
"Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century—among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X. Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Arriving at a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Everybody is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.
Pen Pals
Author: V
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490708383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Twisted love, in the hands of a mad man, is where Katherine placed her three daughters and all her worldly possessions.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490708383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Twisted love, in the hands of a mad man, is where Katherine placed her three daughters and all her worldly possessions.
Olivia's Fall
Author: Rhiannon Futch
Publisher: Rhiannon Futch
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
A why choose paranormal romance series with a dog that will never die. One after another, Olivia’s days blur together. The never-ending procession of monotony in her dead-end job leaving her hollow and lonely. The one thing that brings her any joy is her beloved hound, Nims. When the seemingly impossible happens, Olivia awakens on the other side of death with a new and insatiable thirst for blood. Adopted by a community of paranormals she soon grows to love; she finally feels alive. But even the life of a vampire isn’t without its problems… Her mortal past comes back to haunt her, threatening to destroy those she cares for, Olivia will have to fight for what she wants—even if that means spilling a little blood.
Publisher: Rhiannon Futch
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
A why choose paranormal romance series with a dog that will never die. One after another, Olivia’s days blur together. The never-ending procession of monotony in her dead-end job leaving her hollow and lonely. The one thing that brings her any joy is her beloved hound, Nims. When the seemingly impossible happens, Olivia awakens on the other side of death with a new and insatiable thirst for blood. Adopted by a community of paranormals she soon grows to love; she finally feels alive. But even the life of a vampire isn’t without its problems… Her mortal past comes back to haunt her, threatening to destroy those she cares for, Olivia will have to fight for what she wants—even if that means spilling a little blood.
Jeddah Diary
Author: Olivia Arthur
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956995919
Category : Portrait photography
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Documents the two years Arthur spent photographing Saudi Arabian women.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956995919
Category : Portrait photography
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Documents the two years Arthur spent photographing Saudi Arabian women.
Write A Prisoner
Author: Keefe R.D
Publisher: Golden Arch Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Messie Denver is a peer therapist who wants to live a superficial life in New York City, but her life is completely changing since the night of her 24th birthday. She sees a strange ads lands on her laptop, offering a penpal program with an inmate. She thinks it's odd, but intriguing. She only sends letters for fun to her penpal names J. Mark who has commited murder. On the contrary, he takes everything she writes to his heart. The horror show only begins once he is released from jail, and he starts looking for her like a psycho stalker. Messie terrifies as she tries to avoid him at all cost, especially when he finds out about her workplace and her apartment address. Can this be just another horror show in her life, or something more surprising that she doesn't see it coming?
Publisher: Golden Arch Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Messie Denver is a peer therapist who wants to live a superficial life in New York City, but her life is completely changing since the night of her 24th birthday. She sees a strange ads lands on her laptop, offering a penpal program with an inmate. She thinks it's odd, but intriguing. She only sends letters for fun to her penpal names J. Mark who has commited murder. On the contrary, he takes everything she writes to his heart. The horror show only begins once he is released from jail, and he starts looking for her like a psycho stalker. Messie terrifies as she tries to avoid him at all cost, especially when he finds out about her workplace and her apartment address. Can this be just another horror show in her life, or something more surprising that she doesn't see it coming?
Holding On
Author: Tasseli McKay
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520305248
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Holding On reveals the results of an unprecedented ten-year study of justice-involved families, rendering visible the lives of a group of American families whose experiences are too often lost in large-scale demographic research. Using new data from the Multi-site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting, and Partnering—a groundbreaking study of almost two thousand families, incorporating a series of couples-based surveys and qualitative interviews over the course of three years—Holding On sheds rich new light on the parenting and intimate relationships of justice-involved men, challenging long-standing boundaries between research on incarceration and on the well-being of low-income families. Boldly proposing that the failure to recognize the centrality of incarcerated men’s roles as fathers and partners has helped to justify a system that removes them from their families and hides that system’s costs to parents, partners, and children, Holding On considers how research that breaks the false dichotomy between offender and parent, inmate and partner, and victim and perpetrator might help to inform a next generation of public policies that truly support vulnerable families.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520305248
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Holding On reveals the results of an unprecedented ten-year study of justice-involved families, rendering visible the lives of a group of American families whose experiences are too often lost in large-scale demographic research. Using new data from the Multi-site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting, and Partnering—a groundbreaking study of almost two thousand families, incorporating a series of couples-based surveys and qualitative interviews over the course of three years—Holding On sheds rich new light on the parenting and intimate relationships of justice-involved men, challenging long-standing boundaries between research on incarceration and on the well-being of low-income families. Boldly proposing that the failure to recognize the centrality of incarcerated men’s roles as fathers and partners has helped to justify a system that removes them from their families and hides that system’s costs to parents, partners, and children, Holding On considers how research that breaks the false dichotomy between offender and parent, inmate and partner, and victim and perpetrator might help to inform a next generation of public policies that truly support vulnerable families.
Albion
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
After Prison
Author: David J. Harding
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 0871544490
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The incarceration rate in the United States is the highest of any developed nation, with a prison population of approximately 2.3 million in 2016. Over 700,000 prisoners are released each year, and most face significant educational, economic, and social disadvantages. In After Prison, sociologist David Harding and criminologist Heather Harris provide a comprehensive account of young men’s experiences of reentry and reintegration in the era of mass incarceration. They focus on the unique challenges faced by 1,300 black and white youth aged 18 to 25 who were released from Michigan prisons in 2003, investigating the lives of those who achieved some measure of success after leaving prison as well as those who struggled with the challenges of creating new lives for themselves. The transition to young adulthood typically includes school completion, full-time employment, leaving the childhood home, marriage, and childbearing, events that are disrupted by incarceration. While one quarter of the young men who participated in the study successfully transitioned into adulthood—achieving employment and residential independence and avoiding arrest and incarceration—the same number of young men remained deeply involved with the criminal justice system, spending on average four out of the seven years after their initial release re-incarcerated. Not surprisingly, whites are more likely to experience success after prison. The authors attribute this racial disparity to the increased stigma of criminal records for blacks, racial discrimination, and differing levels of social network support that connect whites to higher quality jobs. Black men earn less than white men, are more concentrated in industries characterized by low wages and job insecurity, and are less likely to remain employed once they have a job. The authors demonstrate that families, social networks, neighborhoods, and labor market, educational, and criminal justice institutions can have a profound impact on young people’s lives. Their research indicates that residential stability is key to the transition to adulthood. Harding and Harris make the case for helping families, municipalities, and non-profit organizations provide formerly incarcerated young people access to long-term supportive housing and public housing. A remarkably large number of men in this study eventually enrolled in college, reflecting the growing recognition of college as a gateway to living wage work. But the young men in the study spent only brief spells in college, and the majority failed to earn degrees. They were most likely to enroll in community colleges, trade schools, and for-profit institutions, suggesting that interventions focused on these kinds of schools are more likely to be effective. The authors suggest that, in addition to helping students find employment, educational institutions can aid reentry efforts for the formerly incarcerated by providing supports like childcare and paid apprenticeships. After Prison offers a set of targeted policy interventions to improve these young people’s chances: lifting restrictions on federal financial aid for education, encouraging criminal record sealing and expungement, and reducing the use of incarceration in response to technical parole violations. This book will be an important contribution to the fields of scholarly work on the criminal justice system and disconnected youth.
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 0871544490
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The incarceration rate in the United States is the highest of any developed nation, with a prison population of approximately 2.3 million in 2016. Over 700,000 prisoners are released each year, and most face significant educational, economic, and social disadvantages. In After Prison, sociologist David Harding and criminologist Heather Harris provide a comprehensive account of young men’s experiences of reentry and reintegration in the era of mass incarceration. They focus on the unique challenges faced by 1,300 black and white youth aged 18 to 25 who were released from Michigan prisons in 2003, investigating the lives of those who achieved some measure of success after leaving prison as well as those who struggled with the challenges of creating new lives for themselves. The transition to young adulthood typically includes school completion, full-time employment, leaving the childhood home, marriage, and childbearing, events that are disrupted by incarceration. While one quarter of the young men who participated in the study successfully transitioned into adulthood—achieving employment and residential independence and avoiding arrest and incarceration—the same number of young men remained deeply involved with the criminal justice system, spending on average four out of the seven years after their initial release re-incarcerated. Not surprisingly, whites are more likely to experience success after prison. The authors attribute this racial disparity to the increased stigma of criminal records for blacks, racial discrimination, and differing levels of social network support that connect whites to higher quality jobs. Black men earn less than white men, are more concentrated in industries characterized by low wages and job insecurity, and are less likely to remain employed once they have a job. The authors demonstrate that families, social networks, neighborhoods, and labor market, educational, and criminal justice institutions can have a profound impact on young people’s lives. Their research indicates that residential stability is key to the transition to adulthood. Harding and Harris make the case for helping families, municipalities, and non-profit organizations provide formerly incarcerated young people access to long-term supportive housing and public housing. A remarkably large number of men in this study eventually enrolled in college, reflecting the growing recognition of college as a gateway to living wage work. But the young men in the study spent only brief spells in college, and the majority failed to earn degrees. They were most likely to enroll in community colleges, trade schools, and for-profit institutions, suggesting that interventions focused on these kinds of schools are more likely to be effective. The authors suggest that, in addition to helping students find employment, educational institutions can aid reentry efforts for the formerly incarcerated by providing supports like childcare and paid apprenticeships. After Prison offers a set of targeted policy interventions to improve these young people’s chances: lifting restrictions on federal financial aid for education, encouraging criminal record sealing and expungement, and reducing the use of incarceration in response to technical parole violations. This book will be an important contribution to the fields of scholarly work on the criminal justice system and disconnected youth.